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Renormalization Group Induced Neutrino Mass in Supersymmetry without R-parity

arXiv:hep-ph/9610540 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.55.5772

Abstract

We study supersymmetric models without R parity and with universal soft supersymmetry breaking terms. We show that as a result of the renormalization group flow of the parameters, a misalignment between the directions in field space of the down-type Higgs vacuum expectation value and of the term is always generated. This misalignment induces a mixing between the neutrinos and the neutralinos, resulting in one massive neutrino. By means of a simple approximate analytical expression, we study the dependence on the different parameters that contribute to the misalignment and to . In large part of the parameter space this effect dominates over the standard one-loop contributions to ; we estimate 1 MeV $\lsim m_ν\lsim 1 GeV$. Laboratory, cosmological and astrophysical constraints imply $m_ν\lsim 100 eV$. To be phenomenologically viable, these models must be supplemented with some additional mechanism to ensure approximate alignment and to suppress .

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